President Truman shaking hands with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Washington, D. C., June 1945

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Photograph. U.S. President Harry S. Truman (left) shaking hands with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden at the White House, British Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee standing nearby. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/6/45--British officials call on U.S. President--U.S. President Harry S. Truman (left) shakes hands with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden at the White House in Washington, D. C., U.S. capital, on May 14, 1945. Looking on is Clement Attlee, British Deputy Prime Minister. The British officials called at the White House while en route to England from the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco, California.--PPA Photo—Serviced by Rome OWI (A List out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6567." Washington, D. C. 6 June 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.407
Date: 
06/06/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Presidents--American--District of Columbia
Government officials--British--District of Columbia
Shaking hands--District of Columbia
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
Geography: 
District of Columbia
Latitude: 
38.833
Longitude: 
-77.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Presidents--American--District of Columbia
Government officials--British--District of Columbia
Shaking hands--District of Columbia